PyMaemo/Components

Core

These packages are the minimal necessary to run or develop Python applications for Maemo.

python2.5

Version 2.5 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.

python-central

Provides support for building and installing python modules independent of the current installed Python version.

python-defaults

Provides meta packages with unversioned package names (e.g. python-dev, which installs python2.5-dev).

python-runtime

Meta package which installs the basic Python runtime environment.

python-support

Provides tools for byte-compilation of Python-only modules, and automatic rebuild on major Python upgrades.

Bindings

These packages provide bindings for various Maemo components.

dbus-python

Python interface to D-Bus.

gnome-python

Python interface to various GNOME libraries: GConf, GnomeVFS, bonobo, libgnome, libgnomeui and libgnomecanvas.

gst0.10-python

Python interface to GStreamer.

pybluez

Python interface to the BlueZ bluetooth stack.

pycairo

Python interface to the Cairo vector graphics library.

pycurl

Python interface to libcurl.

pygame

A multimedia development kit for Python, based mostly on SDL.

pygobject

Python interface to GObject.

pygtk

Python interface to GTK+.

pyopenssl

Python interface to OpenSSL.

python-alarm

Python interface to libalarm.

python-clutter

Python interface to Clutter.

python-conic

Python interface to libconic.

python-hildon

Python interface to Hildon.

python-hildondesktop

Python interface to the Hildon Desktop applets.

python-imaging

The Python Imaging Library.

python-location

Python interface to liblocation.

python-mafw

Python interface to MAFW.

python-notify

Python interface to libnotify.

python-numeric

The Numeric Extensions to Python (deprecated).

python-osso

Python interface to libosso.

python-xml

Python interface to XML (deprecated; use python-lxml instead).

storm

Object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python.

Applications

We provide some Python applications as examples, and that we find useful for PyMaemo users.

• ipython

Development

These packages are necessary only if you are developing Python applications on Maemo.

• cython
• pyrex
• python-setuptools

Support packages

These packages are provided as dependencies for other packages, and are not used directly by users/developers.

• libffi (dependency for python2.5)
• sdl-ttf2.0 (dependency for pygame)